I made Loneliness!◾️ I did Gametrekking! 🥾 I founded TIGSource! 🤨 I recently wrote a book about videogames and poetry! 👨🎨 Enough exclamation marks? ⁉️
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I'm excited to share that Game Poems Issue 1 is now live at gamepoems.com/issue01
It's a free playable magazine dedicated to exploring the artistic and poetic potential of short-form videogames.
Thanks for playing and sharing!
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Future? No Thanks!
IS OUT NOW ON STEAM
An open-world comedy adventure about workable utopias, the twilight of patriarchy, revolution, and the horrifying possibility that the younger generations might be right.
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Looking forward to this!
Former PlayStation indie boss Shuhei Yoshida and the founder of TIGSource are throwing a Game Poem jam that "challenges traditional boundaries between art forms" rockpapershotgun.com/former-…
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Yesterday, I had the chance to present at DiGRA 2026! Had an incredible time meeting scholars from all over the world who are interested in game studies. Happy to say the paper I co-authored with @JordanMagnuson on game poems and pleasure is now online: dl.digra.org/index.php/dl/ar…
Open call for Game Poems Magazine Issue 2 is now live! Game Poems is a *playable* magazine dedicated to exploring the artistic and poetic potential of short-form videogames.
If you make small, experimental games, we'd love to see what you create. gamepoems.com/submit
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Tropic of Dinosaur IS OUT!!!
It's a being walked simulator about aging made of clay, tangerine peel, sigarette ends and children's obscene drawings
Go check it out in the first issue of Game Poems magazine along with other beautiful games👇
Thank you for playing and sharing!
ALT an abstract photo collage with tangerine peel, bird's wing, ink drawing of a man, old photo and other stuff. a small title sais "tropic of dinosaur"
Quick update on Game Poems Magazine: we’re putting the final touches on Issue #1 and rather than rushing it out during the holiday season, will launch in January.
If you’d like a reminder when the issue goes live: gamepoems.substack.com/subsc…
Happy holidays!
Game Poems is coming soon! A free online 'magazine' featuring new short-form videogames in a playable format. Add your email to our Substack to be notified when issue 1 is available online: gamepoems.substack.com/subsc…
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Verses Mode: Join game designer and lecturer @JordanMagnuson to find out if video games can be poems at @unisoton_wsa on Sunday as part of @WinPoetryFest 🎊
Find out here 👉 southampton.pulse.ly/046c0ip…
ALT Pixel art scene of a stick figure walking a small dog along a coastal path.
Are you a fan of expressive short-form videogames? If so, check out the first Game Poems Community Showcase at gamepoems.org/showcase
Please play, share, and leave comments!
This is an open event designed to highlight the amazing breadth of work submitted to the first issue of Game Poems magazine. Includes many outstanding games that simply didn't fit into the first issue due to tight curatorial constraints--not for lack of artistic merrit.
Spend some time exploring the games this weekend. Many take less than 5 minutes to play through.
Meanwhile, issue #1 of Game Poems Magazine will be coming out later this fall. Add your email at gamepoems.substack.com/subsc… to be notified.
Do you make weird, artsy, short-form videogames? Or know someone who does? Check out this new zine project I've been working on - and consider submitting a game for the first issue! gamepoems.org/
It just occured to me that I launched TIGSource.com twenty years ago this month. I guess I was younger then.
So anyway, seeing the release of UFO 50 fills me with a very particular kind of pointed nostalgic joy. Because as much as I’m nostalgic for the 8-bit era, I'm just as nostalgic for those Blackeye software days. But my excitement extends beyond nostalgia...
..because frankly the games that these creators have made in more recent years are absolutely brilliant. So this is a rare moment when I can buy a game(s!) for 1) nostalgia trip 2) because I want to support the creators, and 3) because I just want to have an objectively good time
@mossmouth @perryjon So I've been playing through UFO 50 slowly with my 7-year-old son, and we are having so much fun! Makes me so happy every time we stumble on a remake of one of your old Blackeye Software games. We are both amazed that we have so many games to go still!
I really enjoyed talking with Scott Rettberg about Game Poems for his Off Center podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/25L…
Check out the other episodes as well if you are at all interested in digital storytelling--Off Center has been on my regular podcast rotation for a while.
@GameMakerEngine Love what you have done with the HTML5 runtime. Please keep going in the right direction and make the compiler open source, or at least source-available. IDE can be kept closed. Look to Unreal and Phaser as models. Closed source is untenable for the long term.